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Posted at 10:01pm on Mar. 6, 2007 Fitzmas

It's like Christmas, but with more hypocrisy

By Leon H Wolf

Today, after over three long years, the investigation of Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald finally came to fruition. The end result: former Cheney Chief of Staff I. Lewis Libby has been found guilty of four of the five counts upon which he was indicted, including obstruction of justice and making false statements. These are legitimate charges; even if Libby was not guilty of any underlying crime, that does not excuse either obstructing justice or lying to federal investigators, especially when the Fifth Amendment places the burden upon the government to make their case without any help from the defendant whatsoever. Nevertheless, it is probably worthwhile to re-examine the events which led to today's conviction. The final conclusion is this: Scooter Libby was found guilty of lying today because of the spectacular trail of lies left by Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame.

Although it has been just over two years, it seems like an eternity ago that a bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report examined the claims of Joe Wilson and found them to be nothing more than pack of fairy tales, shocking in their mendacity. The report was so damning that the "right wing rag" Washington Post issued an article which fairly dripped of contempt for Wilson, and outlined the numerous ways in which Joe Wilson had lied to everyone; including the Washington Post.

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